Comedian Steve Agee and actor Nathan Fillion have been added to the cast of The Suicide Squad.

Nether actor is a stranger to the comic world.

Agee, 50, previously worked with director James Gunn on the 2017 Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. portraying Gef, a ravager, while Fillion, 48, has past worked with Gunn on a number of previous projects, including a voice role in 2014's Guardians of the Galaxy, and roles in the 2006 film Slither and 2010 movie Super.

New additions: Comedian Steve Agee (R) and actor Nathan Fillion (L) have been added to the cast of The Suicide Squad

Agee, who's also been seen on Superstore, New Girl and The Sarah Silverman Program, is slated to provide the voice of the character King Shark, a villain humanoid role that was featured in two issues of Superboy in the fall of 1994.

Fillion has maintained a presence on TV on shows such as The Rookie, Big Mouth and Santa Clarita Diet, and is also an accomplished voice actor.

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Other new additions to the cast include Idris Elba, David Dastmalchian and Daniela Melchior.

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A table read slate for September 11, and production on the series will begin September 23.

The first Suicide Squad hit theaters in November of 2016, and took in $746 million worldwide, with more than $325 million in domestic box office totals.

Gunn is also slated to direct Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, as he was reinstated to the film franchise this past March after he was fired from the franchise in 2018 after a series of controversial older tweets resurfaced.